Monthly Archives: October 2018

Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements

Posted on October 17, 2018 by | Leave a comment

Can imaginative mayors form progressive governing coalitions that can tackle growing inequality in cities and other social ills?  This is the central question addressed in a new series of articles published by the free online journal Metropolitics.  In his contribution to this series ‘Inclusive Place-Based Leadership: Lesson-Drawing from Urban Governance Innovations in Bristol, UK’ Robin Hambleton outlines a way of conceptualising progressive place-based leadership, and reports on the steps now being taken by Bristol’s Mayor Marvin Rees, and other civic leaders in the city, to test this model in practice.

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British universities – the sleeping giants of place-based leadership?

Posted on October 9, 2018 by | Leave a comment

The Civic University Commission, launched by the University Partnerships Programme (UPP) in March 2018, is an important effort to lift the quality of debate about the changing role of British universities in modern society.  In this Alternatives Paper, published in the online journal People, Place and Policy in September 2018, Robin Hambleton suggests that, while many British universities now see themselves as ‘civic universities’, few can claim to be world leading in this regard.  The article examines the changing role of universities in cities and offers a number of suggestions on how universities can become much more active local leaders.

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